If I wanted to learn spelling I'd go talk with reporters and editors, not geeks. In an article about hacking, anonymity, wikileaks, and the law, you are talking about spelling???? For the first ten posts? Geez. Does anyone care about the problem of freedom of expression, censorship, anonymity, reporting of wrongdoing by international authorities? I'll be moving over to the Wikileaks forums I think.
> By retweeting and posting news stories about this, you've given this designer guy undreamed of publicity.
I'm sure you're right: he never dreamed that hundreds of thousands of people would think him an insensitive asshole.
Wear Your Shoes in Kenneths Asshole. Kenneth Asshole Cole rymes with Kenneths shoe smells, Asshole. Assholes smell like Kenneth Coles. Repeat one million times. Now assign value to the shoe.
But a month from now they won't remember that he was an insensitive asshole. All they'll remember the next time they encounter his name is that it's familiar to them, which will usually lead them to associate it with "famous" or some other vaguely-positive trait.
Yes, everyone forgot about the negative publicity that company Arthur Andersen got. They are doing great now. There is no bad publicity.
Fuck political correctness, as long as people aren't hurting anyone and want to be douche-bags and assholes let them."
Yes, indeed, everyone is free to be assholes whenever they want, and the rest of us, free to remind everyone that repeatedly freely choose to be assholes, whenever we want.
Tasteless, offensive and even agressive and outright illegal can still be funny, even if only to a few people. The fact that some laugh doesn't magically make it not offensive to many others. On the contrary, it adds to the offense. I'm sure Sarah Palin and many others might have considered it quite funny to add gun sights to some congressional districts on a map and make lots of gun jokes in politics. That didn't make any of it a non-offense to many others. And in fact, dangerous, even if that very gunman who actually shot never did see the map or hear the comments, many others might have. Jokes are funny, but that doesn't mean they are comments that have no consequences. If you are smart, you take advantage of the fact that you can make jokes and have an audience, and invent jokes that promote good ideas, rather than fooligh or agressive ideas. And you realize that every single time you speak you are promoting ideas.
You don't get it - IPv6 itself is a misengineered piece of crap.
Well, that's a position I've never heard. The messiness of the transition is, well, yes a mess, but that does mean that more techies will make more money to fix it all up. It will get all fixed up one way or another, but it will cost a hell of a lot more.
for my damn IP numbers! I am not falling victim to this left-wing liberal conspiracy to artifially inflate the price of my IP numbers, the fuel of my business! There is no such thing as a global shorting of IP numbers, the scientific evidence is completely subjective and there is no hard evidence whatsoever, no measurements, of a global shorting of IP numbers . Everyone that needs one has an IP number, and there are plenty more. I myself have 192,168,000,023 IP numbers for use just here in my company. This in nothing but a left wing media conspiracy against the working people to take away our god-given constitutional right to IP numbers in black helicopters.
That would likely be a form of insult in the Muslim/Arab world...
No kidding. A defamation lawsuit from Hosni Mubarak, fallen dictator of Egypt, vs Kenneth Cole, London shoemaker, for offending the public dignity, honor, and good name of the dictator, by sending him a million old, outdated, out-of-fashion, unwanted and rejected shoes. Man, the story would be so good you could make a movie on it.
If I paid taxes in that town, I would be sort of pissed off that the town officials were spending time on something like this, so I wouldn't call it perfectly reasonable.
Completely pissed, actually, I think is is illegal indeed. A municipality is not a corporation. Taxpayers are not the clients of the city, they are the owners of the city. City Hall and the Mayor are not the owners or bosses of the city, they are the employees.
Public servants have not only a right but a *duty* to tell other citizens what is happening in city hall, anything at all, especially in case anything is wrong. Unless there is some justifiable reason for security or secrecy, everything should be public information and discussed very openly.
Modify physical layout of the connections. Every house, block and street to have multiple links to each other, and proper routing in place. Servers should be distributed and virtual, no addresses. Attempts at censorship would become hard.
Data communications deserve total freedom of expression, just like in-person and voice communication. No central should have any controls.
Exactly the whole debate of a "kill switch" is distractive. The real issue is that censorship can and does already happen, and what we should to do about it. There a number of central control points on the Internet, all of them depend on governments and corporations acceptance, funding to function normally. The US is using domains, others use DNS, Egypt now used psysical disconnection, china uses interception of data for sniffing. These are known, and from these it can be safely assumed that many, many more of these abuses exist without public knowledge. Tor works but is having too few outgoing nodes, proxies have trust problems, using these is an infraction themselves in many places, DNS cannot be redirected sometimes, the physical connections are always run by a corporation, not grassroots organizations interested in freedom of expression.
There must be lots of exciting stories to tell that if they so scared that anyone will publish anything. Send it to me, I'll publish. I'm not their employee, never been there, dont know where it is, and never heard of them, but now I want to know all about their dirty business!
Yes, but we users have done nothing about it. We continue to accept "standards" that are not made by neutral, user and usability focused groups. All "standards" have now been abandoned to corporations, which is increasingly meaning less interopability, more expensive and proprietary products, and more dependence on the corporations. As time goes on we will reach a situation with no standards whatsoever where the simplest things become increasingly complex, expensive, and in more and more cases, not doable for economic or practical reasons at all.
Corporate-made "standards" very often have clear, well-known interests behind them, and at the very least the standards bodies can do is denounce those cases and tell everyone to reject them. Some cases, like PCI or USB for example, are well-intended, beneficial for everyone.
I can't tell if you're ridiculing the OP's argument by using the reductio ad absurdum method, or whether you are serious, but insane.
As this is slashdot, sadly the later is more likely.
I indeed desire the whole copyright, trademark and defamation laws to be gone. Political reality displays it is unrealistic to expect soon, but my opinions remain. Mentioned within an article to pass legislation favoring death penalties by cisco router beating seems entirely appropriate. If you disagree however, you can sue me on Cisco's behalf for making such statements, arguing unauthorized use of trademark. Perhaps they won't authorize the case out of concern for negative PR consequences, but the case would likely be successful. Perhaps Huawei would sponsor the cause, however.
An orderly transitional government, to setup fair and open elections, would likely lead to more debate of the issues, and a government reflecting the people, which are mixed, secular and religious. If it turns messy and confrontational, more emotional and less rational, radical groups get better chances, be they right, left, military, religious, corporate or whatever.
AT&T is Apple's partner and should be fully aware this happens. If it's a technical issue, there should be warnings and workaround, preventive measures. There is little info on how to prevent extra charges on the phones, for obvious reasons. I've also noticed many phones make it rather easy to accidentally dial numbers.
I'm a US citizen living In Brazil. There are similar lawsuits. I run a cybercafe here, am being sued for the emails a client sent. Can't locate the client, so I respond for defamation. USD$35,000 asked in damages. Heck selling the whole store and all my personal funds wouldn't pay that. Bloggers here are routinely sued for the comments people leave on their websites. The law is applied case-by-case. Phone companies, car manufacturers, and gun manufacturers, for some strange reason, aren't responsible for the crimes and deaths their much more dangerous products are used for.
Why did the slashdot re-design not also update that stupid Microsoft icon here? It is so dated and lame, I wonder if anybody over 20 even understand the references to it.
Even fucking facebook has the real logo on this site, and you guys can't use the real Microsoft logo by now?
Yeah perhaps Mr. Smith is the more updated version of the Borg, fitting to represent Microsoft.
Mubarak is trying to buy time while he empties out his bank accounts and hides his loot. He'll be headed to Saudi Arabia before the week is out.
Let's hope you're right. Either he's gathering up his money from the closed banks, or he's being foolishly hard headed, which is what I heard commenters say.
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If I wanted to learn spelling I'd go talk with reporters and editors, not geeks. In an article about hacking, anonymity, wikileaks, and the law, you are talking about spelling???? For the first ten posts? Geez. Does anyone care about the problem of freedom of expression, censorship, anonymity, reporting of wrongdoing by international authorities? I'll be moving over to the Wikileaks forums I think.
> By retweeting and posting news stories about this, you've given this designer guy undreamed of publicity.
I'm sure you're right: he never dreamed that hundreds of thousands of people would think him an insensitive asshole.
Wear Your Shoes in Kenneths Asshole. Kenneth Asshole Cole rymes with Kenneths shoe smells, Asshole. Assholes smell like Kenneth Coles. Repeat one million times. Now assign value to the shoe.
But a month from now they won't remember that he was an insensitive asshole. All they'll remember the next time they encounter his name is that it's familiar to them, which will usually lead them to associate it with "famous" or some other vaguely-positive trait.
Yes, everyone forgot about the negative publicity that company Arthur Andersen got. They are doing great now. There is no bad publicity.
Fuck political correctness, as long as people aren't hurting anyone and want to be douche-bags and assholes let them."
Yes, indeed, everyone is free to be assholes whenever they want, and the rest of us, free to remind everyone that repeatedly freely choose to be assholes, whenever we want.
Tasteless, offensive and even agressive and outright illegal can still be funny, even if only to a few people. The fact that some laugh doesn't magically make it not offensive to many others. On the contrary, it adds to the offense. I'm sure Sarah Palin and many others might have considered it quite funny to add gun sights to some congressional districts on a map and make lots of gun jokes in politics. That didn't make any of it a non-offense to many others. And in fact, dangerous, even if that very gunman who actually shot never did see the map or hear the comments, many others might have. Jokes are funny, but that doesn't mean they are comments that have no consequences. If you are smart, you take advantage of the fact that you can make jokes and have an audience, and invent jokes that promote good ideas, rather than fooligh or agressive ideas. And you realize that every single time you speak you are promoting ideas.
You don't get it - IPv6 itself is a misengineered piece of crap.
Well, that's a position I've never heard. The messiness of the transition is, well, yes a mess, but that does mean that more techies will make more money to fix it all up. It will get all fixed up one way or another, but it will cost a hell of a lot more.
for my damn IP numbers! I am not falling victim to this left-wing liberal conspiracy to artifially inflate the price of my IP numbers, the fuel of my business! There is no such thing as a global shorting of IP numbers, the scientific evidence is completely subjective and there is no hard evidence whatsoever, no measurements, of a global shorting of IP numbers . Everyone that needs one has an IP number, and there are plenty more. I myself have 192,168,000,023 IP numbers for use just here in my company. This in nothing but a left wing media conspiracy against the working people to take away our god-given constitutional right to IP numbers in black helicopters.
That would likely be a form of insult in the Muslim/Arab world...
No kidding. A defamation lawsuit from Hosni Mubarak, fallen dictator of Egypt, vs Kenneth Cole, London shoemaker, for offending the public dignity, honor, and good name of the dictator, by sending him a million old, outdated, out-of-fashion, unwanted and rejected shoes. Man, the story would be so good you could make a movie on it.
He would be wiser to make it right by sending Mubarak a million out-of-fashion, leftover, unpopular, unsold shoes.
If I paid taxes in that town, I would be sort of pissed off that the town officials were spending time on something like this, so I wouldn't call it perfectly reasonable.
Completely pissed, actually, I think is is illegal indeed. A municipality is not a corporation. Taxpayers are not the clients of the city, they are the owners of the city. City Hall and the Mayor are not the owners or bosses of the city, they are the employees.
Public servants have not only a right but a *duty* to tell other citizens what is happening in city hall, anything at all, especially in case anything is wrong. Unless there is some justifiable reason for security or secrecy, everything should be public information and discussed very openly.
Modify physical layout of the connections. Every house, block and street to have multiple links to each other, and proper routing in place. Servers should be distributed and virtual, no addresses. Attempts at censorship would become hard.
Data communications deserve total freedom of expression, just like in-person and voice communication. No central should have any controls.
Exactly the whole debate of a "kill switch" is distractive. The real issue is that censorship can and does already happen, and what we should to do about it. There a number of central control points on the Internet, all of them depend on governments and corporations acceptance, funding to function normally. The US is using domains, others use DNS, Egypt now used psysical disconnection, china uses interception of data for sniffing. These are known, and from these it can be safely assumed that many, many more of these abuses exist without public knowledge. Tor works but is having too few outgoing nodes, proxies have trust problems, using these is an infraction themselves in many places, DNS cannot be redirected sometimes, the physical connections are always run by a corporation, not grassroots organizations interested in freedom of expression.
There must be lots of exciting stories to tell that if they so scared that anyone will publish anything. Send it to me, I'll publish. I'm not their employee, never been there, dont know where it is, and never heard of them, but now I want to know all about their dirty business!
Where is this site where poople buy the book directly from the source, the authors, with no intermediaries?
>>>"here Google, we fixed your browser for you".
This seems awfully familiar.
Yes, but we users have done nothing about it. We continue to accept "standards" that are not made by neutral, user and usability focused groups. All "standards" have now been abandoned to corporations, which is increasingly meaning less interopability, more expensive and proprietary products, and more dependence on the corporations. As time goes on we will reach a situation with no standards whatsoever where the simplest things become increasingly complex, expensive, and in more and more cases, not doable for economic or practical reasons at all.
Corporate-made "standards" very often have clear, well-known interests behind them, and at the very least the standards bodies can do is denounce those cases and tell everyone to reject them. Some cases, like PCI or USB for example, are well-intended, beneficial for everyone.
Maybe the CHP will give it a ticket.
I can't tell if you're ridiculing the OP's argument by using the reductio ad absurdum method, or whether you are serious, but insane.
As this is slashdot, sadly the later is more likely.
I indeed desire the whole copyright, trademark and defamation laws to be gone. Political reality displays it is unrealistic to expect soon, but my opinions remain. Mentioned within an article to pass legislation favoring death penalties by cisco router beating seems entirely appropriate. If you disagree however, you can sue me on Cisco's behalf for making such statements, arguing unauthorized use of trademark. Perhaps they won't authorize the case out of concern for negative PR consequences, but the case would likely be successful. Perhaps Huawei would sponsor the cause, however.
An orderly transitional government, to setup fair and open elections, would likely lead to more debate of the issues, and a government reflecting the people, which are mixed, secular and religious. If it turns messy and confrontational, more emotional and less rational, radical groups get better chances, be they right, left, military, religious, corporate or whatever.
http://stat.ripe.net/egypt
AT&T is Apple's partner and should be fully aware this happens. If it's a technical issue, there should be warnings and workaround, preventive measures. There is little info on how to prevent extra charges on the phones, for obvious reasons. I've also noticed many phones make it rather easy to accidentally dial numbers.
I'm a US citizen living In Brazil. There are similar lawsuits. I run a cybercafe here, am being sued for the emails a client sent. Can't locate the client, so I respond for defamation. USD$35,000 asked in damages. Heck selling the whole store and all my personal funds wouldn't pay that. Bloggers here are routinely sued for the comments people leave on their websites. The law is applied case-by-case. Phone companies, car manufacturers, and gun manufacturers, for some strange reason, aren't responsible for the crimes and deaths their much more dangerous products are used for.
Agent smith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Smith
Why did the slashdot re-design not also update that stupid Microsoft icon here? It is so dated and lame, I wonder if anybody over 20 even understand the references to it.
Even fucking facebook has the real logo on this site, and you guys can't use the real Microsoft logo by now?
Yeah perhaps Mr. Smith is the more updated version of the Borg, fitting to represent Microsoft.
... Developers, developers, developers, developers.
That's what Linux/open source needs.
Mubarak is trying to buy time while he empties out his bank accounts and hides his loot. He'll be headed to Saudi Arabia before the week is out.
Let's hope you're right. Either he's gathering up his money from the closed banks, or he's being foolishly hard headed, which is what I heard commenters say.